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ANAHEIM, Calif. — Perhaps this new-look Yankees team isn’t all about offense.

Sure, Gary Sanchez continued his red-hot streak with another homer in Saturday’s 5-1 win over the Angels, but Luis Cessa did more than his part, firing six-plus scoreless innings in his first major league start.

The win got the Yankees back to within four games of Baltimore for the second wild-card spot in the AL.

Though Sanchez has been a full-time major leaguer for less than two weeks, he’s wasted no time embracing the big stage.

With much of the attention surrounding the team focused on Sanchez and the other parts of the organization’s youth movement, it’s only natural to start looking ahead to next season and beyond.

Not for Sanchez. On Saturday afternoon, the young catcher took to Twitter and wrote:

"Experts" say we @Yankees have no chance to make the playoffs…well we may just be young and naive enough to disagree. #NotGivingUp

“I believe that,” Sanchez said through a translator. “That’s why we play. We have a good chance to make it.”

His first-inning homer helped. It was his sixth homer since being called up Aug. 3.

The man he replaced behind the plate, Brian McCann, chipped in with a two-run single later in the inning that made it 3-0 before Luis Cessa even took the mound in his first major league start.

Cessa, 24, isn’t necessarily a key part of the Yankees’ next chapter, but he’s part of another set of young players with a chance to fight its way into the conversation.

He’s off to a promising start, not allowing a base runner until Gregorio Petit singled with two outs in the third.

“I felt nervous before game, but when I threw the first pitch, it felt like a normal game,” Cessa said.

He was tested right away, facing Mike Trout and Albert Pujols in the first and then got Trout with two runners on to end the third.

“That was a tough moment,” Cessa said. “You don’t need to throw a perfect pitch, just a good pitch.”

The right-hander was part of the December trade that sent lefty reliever Justin Wilson to Detroit. Few would have predicted at the time that both players the Yankees got in return, Cessa and Chad Green, would start on consecutive days in mid-August with the Yankees still at least in the postseason conversation.

Aaron Judge belts a two-run single in the Yankees’ 5-1 win on Saturday.

“I’m not so sure I would have said I believe that because they were younger and we knew they were both going to go to Triple-A, probably,” Joe Girardi said before the game. “That’s the nature of the game. When you get an opportunity because of injuries and different things, sometimes you force your way onto a roster.”

Since being recalled again from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, Sanchez has done the same at the plate. After his first-inning homer, half of his hits have been for extra bases (11 of 22).
“He’s hit the ball all over the place,” Girardi said. “It looks like he has the ability to make adjustments, but time will tell. So far, I’ve seen adjustments within at-bats.”

Aaron Judge, after going through his first 0-for-5 night in the majors Friday, responded with a two-run single through the right side of the infield in the sixth against Angels right-hander Ricky Nolasco.

“I think these are important games for them because we are fighting for something,” Girardi said. “It means more.”

That goes for Cessa, as well.

Only Albert Pujols’ ninth-inning homer off Dellin Betances prevented a second straight shutout.

“These guys aren’t just coming up to fill a spot,” McCann said. “They are impact baseball players. It’s great to see.”